Story behind the photograph

This is Curtis, a skateboarder I’ve met today at the infamous Martin Place pit. I have to stress I consider what these young men are doing extremely dangerous as there is simply no place to land their jumps. Never the less I also admire the determination and courage with which Curtis was trying over and over to land his trick. I’ve watched him for close to 20 minutes and his pain after some of the stacks was rather obvious. This is certainly and Xtreme sport